Beyond Learning Systems

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="384"] Photo by pernillarydmark [/caption] Sometimes we all get a little too focused on one slice of the world. Technology that helps people learn is no small slice, but it is just one segment of the systems a company uses to conduct business.…

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New Experiment: xAPI Draw

Introduction This is the first of several examples that we'll be sharing in the near future that show how to use the Experience API to do things you couldn't easily do before. The interoperability of the emerging standard makes this all possible. The Idea Handwriting…

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Adopters Spotlight Series: Curatr

Curatr is a social learning platform that allows companies to create a visually stunning and highly collaborative learning environment. Taking in any digital content, Curatr shapes a learners experience with an inbuilt gamification mechanism, encouraging users to contribute and curate content as they earn points…

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How Do People Find Their Paths?

Meet Steve... Steve is in his 20’s and he uses the internet for EVERYTHING. Steve recently finished his Bachelors degree in business, he works in finance. Every day he finds himself more interested in the technology he’s using for his job, more than the job…

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Adopters Spotlight Series: First up, The Knowledge Guru

First up is a super new adopter, The Knowledge Guru™. The Knowledge Guru™ is a game that uses spaced learning and repetition for maximum knowledge transfer. The game engine itself uses the Experience API as a bridge between its stand-alone database and a client's LMS.…

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There are Stories to be Told

We really like telling stories here at Rustici. They’re a great way to help someone understand an idea in a context that they can grasp onto. Think about how a story opens up a little of your world to other people, brings them into how…

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Why Aren’t We Talking About Content?

One thing that I hear often from people working with learning technology is that there are a lot of standards: they seem to compete and that makes it really hard to know what one is supposed to do about these new standards. One common thing…

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Teachers, There’s a Better Way.

I've been spending a lot of time with teachers and K-12 lately. One of the main things that I've heard in using technology in the classroom or online is that scaling is hard. When kids get moving with an app or site, they accelerate like…

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xAPI Evangelists and Onion Enthusiasts

As a "xAPI-first" company and self proclaimed xAPI Evangelists, we see it as our duty to spread the good word about the Experience API and plant the seed with folks like you about all of the new possibilities it enables. In doing this, we've had countless conversations. Each conversation…

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Inside Your Brain

How cool would it be if we could look inside our brains and see what we're learning and how we're learning it? But we can't do it. We can't manage learning. So what the heck are we doing with ourselves? Why are we building learning management systems and specifications…

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